Just six years ago, HUNTER'S ALERT was formed by a very small group of people who enjoyed hunting and fishing in our state. We could see our favorite pastime was going downhill. We also realized that the people responsible for this decline did not have the knowledge or perhaps lacked the intestinal fortitude to correct the problem.

Nevada Division of Wildlife Administrator Will Molini stood before the 1989 legislative session and, again in the 1991 session begging for money to keep his department going. Now he is saying that NDOW will be 3 to 4 million dollars in debt in 1996-97. Who is responsible for this situation? Number 1: The administrator, Number 2: The Wildlife Commission, Number 3: Some sportsmen's organizations.

NDOW and the Wildlife Commission never listen to the sportsmen in our state but now that they are in serious financial trouble they have decided to do a survey. Listed below are their questions and HUNTER'S ALERT answers.

Ever since Mahlon Brown was appointed to the Wildlife Commission he has been singing praises about the Nevada Division of Wildlife Administrator Willie Molini. He claims Willie is one of the best administrators in all the Western states and even compared him to General Schwarzkopf.

For years HUNTER'S ALERT and other knowledgeable outdoor groups have been telling people about Will Moloni’s inability to properly manage NDOW. For years, it has fallen on deaf ears and now the sportsmen in our state are going to suffer because of it. The many failed audits years ago proved Willie Molini was not doing a good job. Chairman Mahlon Brown said those audits don't mean anything! Who is responsible for this catastrophe? 1. The administrator himself. He cannot increase gam...
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Peter Ward was horn, raised and has lived on the shores of Lake Manitoba for the past seventy one years. During this time, he has been a student of waterfowl and waterfowling while keeping a vigilant eye on the Delta Waterfowl and Wetland? Research Station, the Delta Marsh and the surrounding prairie region He has seen the coining and the complete domination of modern agriculture He has seen the ducks disappear and he has seen the recent explosion in predator populations. What follows are his th...
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For the last 17 of my 30 years trapping career, I have been involved in Predator Control Management on livestock In the course of trapping, calling, denning and flying, you get to sec a lot of livestock and wildlife deaths caused by predation. You are out at all times of the day and all season. You cover 3000-4000 square miles so you see predation over a large geographical area.

I live in Utah where hunting has suffered from the same destructive forces of lion depradation (lions have been increasing for years) and a department that seems to be controlled by environmentalists because they arc organized.

We need an organization here in Utah. Hunters are really pissed! We aren't represented. The Wildlife Department issued 5,000 anterless permits for this 1993 season on mule deer. They only recently rescinded the order on threats of Department personnel going public. The...
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Nevada: "In other news, the Nevada Division of Wildlife went to a private contractor last year for its bjg-game tag drawings. While there was initial apprehension over the change, the contractor did a flawless job in 1993 and performed for less money. This is the intelligent way to spend sportsmens' dollars." EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks to HUNTER'S ALERT!

When blacktail deer began destroying showcase vegetables at Ardenwood Park in Fremont, California, state Fish and Game Department officials determined the only reasonable alternative was to issue depredation permits so park officials could kill the marauding deer and salvage the meat for charity

However, some local citizens protested the plan, and applied enough pressure to force the park and state to relocate the animals

ID a roundup that eventually cost $100,000, twenty-seven deer were captured ...
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In our last issue of HUNTER'S ALERT, we told you that NDOW administrator Willie Molini had teamed up with the antihunting organization, Defenders of Wildlife. When he was asked about their antihunting activity, Molini said, "I don't see an antihunting agenda, an active antihunting agenda there today."

Now, Defenders of Wildlife is suing the Interior Department over the compatibility of secondary uses in the National Wildlife Refuge System. Secondary uses are hunting, fishing, an...
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The drought, the drought, the drought What excuse would you expect NDOW administrator Molini to use? I’m incompetent, I’m a dismal failure to the sportsmen in our state? I’m just putting in my time till retirement and could care less about our game situation? I refuse to acknowledge the predator problem because I don't went to upset the-anti's, or heaven for bid--HUNTER'S ALERT was right all along.

Back in 1975 in the spring and early summer, the Montana Department of Feb., Wildlife and Parks discovered that nearly every mule deer fawn that they studied in the Missouri Breaks was eventually lost to coyotes. In Nebraska, a two year study was initiated. According to Karl Menzel, Nebraska big game specialist, 112 coyotes were removed from a 170 square mile area in that state. This was done to study the effects of coyote control upon antelope fawn survival. Fawn survival success rates climbed ...
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Somewhat of a solitary beast, buying gifts for other people has become quite a task. The upcoming banquets do need a certain number of items and I am the official "BUYER". You see, remembering back to another part of my life, we had no reason to have banquets to raise money to make more game! The only money problem we had then were raising babies, paying on used washers and trying to keep the old heap running. Seems at times I forgot about campfires, autumn days, and toting that old single barre...
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